Full coverage: President Trump becomes the third U.S. president to be impeached
The Senate acquitted President Trump of abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress’ investigation into his conduct, ending the third presidential impeachment trial in American history.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), the Republican Party’s presidential candidate eight years ago, became the only GOP lawmaker to join Democrats in voting to convict the president — on one of the articles of impeachment — for what he called “an appalling abuse of public trust.” It made for a dramatic conclusion to what both parties had expected to be a purely party-line vote.
For Trump, the Senate verdict allows him to declare victory as he turns toward a reelection bid. But unlike any president in modern history, he will run under the stigma of having been impeached by the House — a move with unknown political consequences.
The White House is weighing a plan to dismiss Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council after he testified in President Trump’s impeachment inquiry.
Trump and Pelosi clash over faith after impeachment, while still holding out hope for an infrastructure bill.
Senate Republicans rushed to acquit President Trump before all the evidence from the Ukraine scandal could come to light, most notably John Bolton’s unpublished memoir.
‘My family, our great country and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people,’ Trump says.
The Utah senator was the only Republican to vote for conviction at President Trump’s impeachment trial. For some Mormons, there is a religious significance.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. tried to be neutral in presiding as a divided Senate judged Trump, but his refusal to intervene to allow witnesses vexed some.
In remarks on the Senate floor today, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah announced he’d vote to convict on one article of impeachment against President Trump.
Partisan fury has grown sharper, with Democrats bitter over a president they believe abused his office and Republicans angry he was impeached at all.
The Senate votes to acquit President Trump, ending the third presidential impeachment trial in American history.
After President Trump finished his State of the Union address, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up her copy of the speech.
A day after Mueller testified to Congress last July, Trump made his fateful call to Ukraine’s president, leading to his impeachment. What will he do after he is acquitted?
Sen. Susan Collins’ decision leaves Democrats with few options for bipartisan support for their impeachment push to convict and remove President Trump.
The Senate is cleaving along party lines in advance of Wednesday’s virtually certain votes to acquit President Trump on two impeachment charges.
‘Is there one among you who will say: “Enough”?’ Schiff asks GOP senators in final impeachment pitch
House Democrats say Senate has a “duty” to convict Trump. The president’s legal team asks Senate to leave it to the voters.
When President Trump gives his State of the Union speech Tuesday, will he gloat over his coming acquittal or can he rise above it? I’m not optimistic.
The Trump administration says in a court filing that 24 emails revealing details of President Trump’s decision-making regarding withholding military assistance to Ukraine, which goes to the heart of his impeachment, are protected from a lawsuit under “presidential privilege.”
Many establishment Republicans who vowed to stop Trump’s rise four years ago saved his presidency in the impeachment trial, the latest sign of his party dominance.
A handful of Democrats haven’t said publicly how they will vote in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
The Senate voted narrowly to bring the impeachment trial of President Trump to a close without subpoenas for witnesses, clearing the way for a final vote.
The Senate is expected to weigh on Friday whether to call witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Trump, and Democrats are expected to fall short of the 51 votes needed.
Experts say the messaging of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical is appealing to both liberals and conservatives.
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Can Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. break a 50-50 tie in the Senate on the question of subpoenaing former national security advisor John Bolton?
Former national security advisor John Bolton loomed large in Democrats’ questions in the Senate impeachment trial, but the GOP may yet block his testimony.
As Trump lawyers concluded their case on Tuesday, key votes in the Senate remained unclear.
Dershowitz says he hasn’t yet discussed his legal fees for defending Trump. The bigger question is who will pay Trump’s lawyers.
Trump’s lawyers laid the groundwork for invoking executive privilege to block potentially damaging public testimony from witnesses like John Bolton.
Bolton’s claims put pressure on Republicans to allow witnesses at President Trump’s impeachment trial.
President Trump’s former national security advisor says Trump wanted to maintain a freeze on military assistance to Ukraine until it launched political investigations into his Democratic rivals.
President Trump’s defense lawyers said their opening foray in the impeachment trial was a “sneak preview.” They aim to shift scrutiny to the Bidens and other Democrats even as reports about John Bolton complicate their case and fuel calls for witnesses.
A recording of a 2018 meeting contradicts President Trump’s statement that he did not know Lev Parnas or Igor Fruman, associates of Rudolph Giuliani.
In two hours Saturday, President Trump’s lawyers concluded their first day of defense in his Senate impeachment trial.
President Trump can be heard in a 2018 recorded conversation saying he wants to get rid of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, whose removal a year later emerged as an issue in Trump’s impeachment.
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President Trump’s impeachment lawyers appear ready to deliver a public tarring of former 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
House managers prosecuting Trump’s impeachment made their final push Friday after three days of meticulous, scathing but often repetitive opening arguments.
The Senate has banned coffee, electronics and talking during the impeachment trial. Senators have turned to milk, fidget spinners and candy to get through it.
Four Senate Democrats running for president are pinned down in the chamber for Trump’s impeachment trial, keeping them from campaigning ahead of Iowa’s caucuses. But they do have some tricks up their sleeves.
After the opening day of the Senate impeachment trial proved so toxic that the chief justice rebuked both sides, the rhetoric cooled Wednesday — except from President Trump.
House Democrats faced off against Trump’s lawyers in his Senate impeachment trial, only the third in history for a president.
As he leaves the World Economic Forum, President Trump alludes to his Senate impeachment trial, saying his economic success has driven Democrats ‘crazy.’
The District of Columbia is suing President Trump’s inaugural committee, claiming nonprofit funds were spent improperly at his D.C. hotel.
The facts are mostly undisputed, the strategies are clear, and the two sides have filed their briefs. Get ready for a contentious trial despite Mitch McConnell’s best efforts.
Chief Justice John Roberts does double duty in the Senate and Supreme Court. His first day in the trial offered a glimpse into how he’ll handle the job.
Republicans backed off attempts to limit opening statements to two long days for each side, but stayed united against Democratic efforts to subpoena witnesses.
Republicans plan to defeat Democrats’ initial attempt to call witnesses for Trump’s impeachment trial. But that may change as the trial proceeds.
Trump’s legal team filed a detailed brief for the first time Monday, a day before the Senate impeachment trial
Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz says no constitutional basis for abuse of power charge. Democrats say that’s because president has no defense.
President Trump’s legal team accuses House Democrats of trying to overturn the 2016 election in an angry response Saturday to the impeachment trial.
Messages released this week indicate Rep. Devin Nunes’ office was aware of efforts to gather dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine, an issue at the heart of the impeachment of President Trump.
With his impeachment trial now convened, Trump has picked an aggressive team of outside lawyers, including Alan Dershowitz, whose career was tarred by his ties to a pedophile, and Kenneth Starr, whose investigation led to the 1998 impeachment of President Clinton.
Kenneth Starr, who oversaw the GOP impeachment drive against President Clinton two decades ago, is joining President Trump’s legal defense team.
Alan Dershowitz, the celebrated lawyer whose career has been marred by his ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is joining President Trump’s legal team.
Once described as “more labradoodle than Doberman,” Adam Schiff got tough on President Trump. That’s made him both a hero and a pariah.
GOP senators say they looked to Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial for guidelines on Trump’s. Here’s a timeline of the key dates and moments from the 1999 trial.
As the Senate prepared for a trial, a nonpartisan watchdog agency said the White House violated federal law by withholding Ukraine aid last year.
For the impeachment trial, oaths will be taken, an oath book signed, House prosecutors will present the articles. Then things really get rolling.
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As the Senate prepared for a trial, a nonpartisan watchdog agency said the White House violated federal law by withholding Ukraine aid last year.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi named seven House managers for President Trump’s Senate trial. Here are their backgrounds.
A close associate of Trump’s personal lawyer says he delivered an ultimatum to the incoming president of Ukraine that all American aid to the war-torn country would be withheld if an investigation into Joe Biden wasn’t announced.
House Democrats will send the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate will begin trial preparations on Thursday.
Senate Republicans signaled they would reject the idea of simply voting to dismiss the articles of impeachment against President Trump as the House prepares to send the charges to the chamber for the historic trial.
The presidents says the Senate should simply dismiss the impeachment case, an extraordinary suggestion as the House prepares to transmit charges.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicates the House will probably send articles of impeachment to the Senate next week, potentially ending a partisan standoff.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she plans to submit articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate “soon.” Did her delay strategy work?
Chief Justice Roberts would probably prefer a ceremonial role in President Trump’s impeachment trial. Will he be able to avoid the tough questions?
Republicans rebuff Democrats as they move to frame the rules for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.
John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security advisor, says he is willing to testify in the Senate impeachment trial.
Murkowski said she was disturbed to hear McConnell say there would be “total coordination” between the White House and Senate over the impeachment trial.
Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump singled out Speaker Nancy Pelosi. ‘She hates the Republican Party,’ Trump charged on Christmas Eve.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is not ruling out witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, but indicated he was in no hurry to seek new testimony either.
Democrats want the trial to feature key fact witnesses. Republicans refuse. Nancy Pelosi hits pause on forwarding articles of impeachment to the Senate.
Democrats say they still have unanswered questions about the Ukraine scandal that led to Trump’s impeachment.
Associated Press editors determined that the third impeachment of a U.S. president warranted a “flash,” a designation given to stories of transcendent or historical importance.
President Trump reacted to his impeachment as he does every other scandal — ignoring the stigma, lashing out at his enemies and claiming victory.
A day after President Trump was impeached in the House, attention turned to when – and how – the Senate will conduct his trial.
Some Democrats, representing people of color long voiceless in national debate, described the impeachment fight as a question of minority rights.
While the vote to impeach President Trump was a near inevitability, the national security implications remain politically combustible, for both parties.
As the impeachment of President Trump proceeds, we break down what the process entails.
After all the drama, the political fallout from Trump’s impeachment seems likely to be an anticlimax. Here’s why 2020 candidates don’t want to talk about it.
The Senate will hold an impeachment trial to decide whether to remove Trump from office. Here’s what we expect to happen.
Reactions to Wednesday’s House vote ranged from joy to outrage, ardor to cynicism. But across party lines, there was a deep sense of weariness.
At a marathon annual news conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin says the basis of President Trump’s impeachment was “far-fetched.”
Impeachment is now a key part of Speaker Pelosi’s legacy. Her first year back as speaker was marked by impeachment, policy disputes with Trump and cultural moments.
President Trump rallied supporters Wednesday in Michigan, a critical state for his reelection bid, as the full House considered articles of impeachment against him.
The House has impeached President Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
With Congress expected to impeach Trump on Wednesday, Republicans and Democrats are clashing over how the Senate should hold its trial.
House Democrats have released a Judiciary Committee report detailing the rationale for impeaching President Trump.
House and Senate leaders take for granted the House will impeach Trump and the Senate will acquit him. But how the Senate trial will work is uncertain.
The Times’ Doyle McManus has witnessed impeachment hearings for Nixon, Clinton and now Trump. In this partisan climate, the outcome is preordained.
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The House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against President Trump, setting up a vote by the full chamber next week.
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The panel is close to approving two articles of impeachment — one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of Congress. The vote is Friday.
About $20 million of the Pentagon aid originally held up by President Trump hasn’t reached Ukraine. The continued delay undermines a key argument against impeachment made by a new White House legal memo and Trump’s Republican allies.
House Democrats are politicking for coveted roles prosecuting Trump in upcoming Senate impeachment trial.
President Trump is locked in a struggle with Republican leaders over plans for his Senate impeachment trial.
The two articles of impeachment against President Trump don’t mention Russia, but Moscow’s meddling in 2016 underlies the current constitutional crisis.
House Democrats say they will impeach the president and then deliver on his coveted trade deal, testing the political ballast of both.
House Democrats unveil at least two articles of impeachment against President Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Democratic leaders say Trump put U.S. elections and national security at risk when he asked Ukraine to investigate his rivals, including Democrat Joe Biden.
Pushing ahead with articles of impeachment at a hearing, the House Judiciary Committee convenes to receive the investigative findings against President Trump.
Democrats are united on the need for impeachment, but haven’t decided how broad of a case to make against President Trump.
President Trump has blown off House impeachment proceedings and is instead planning a counteroffensive in the Republican-led Senate.
These six Californians on the House Judiciary Committee will help write the articles of impeachment against President Trump.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces she will ask House committee chairmen to move forward on impeaching President Trump.
President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani meets with former Ukraine government officials, saying he intends to undermine the impeachment inquiry.
Lawmakers are getting a crash course on impeachment this week as the inquiry into President Trump moves to the House Judiciary Committee
The first impeachment hearing by the House Judiciary Committee in two decades turned into a partisan brawl on Wednesday.
Judiciary Committee to make impeachment case after Intelligence Committee releases report.
As House Democrats move forward in their effort to remove President Trump from office, a new poll finds California voters deeply split along party lines, with a majority supporting impeachment.
The Judiciary Committee takes up the inquiry as the House heads closer to impeaching the president. It’s a larger and far more unruly group than the Intelligence Committee, which poses a risk to the Democratic leadership’s carefully controlled process.
President Trump criticized Democrats at the opening of a NATO leaders’ meeting Tuesday, calling the impeachment push by his rivals “unpatriotic” and “a bad thing for our country.”
Lawmakers get their first look at the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report Monday night behind closed doors.
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Trump calls the impeachment inquiry a sham and won’t cooperate. But a new phase gives his legal team a chance to take part and press his case.
Readers react to our coverage of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and a columnist’s call to ditch use of the term ‘everyman,’ especially when applied to Tom Hanks.
Two weeks of public hearings on impeaching President Trump have changed few minds, new polls show. A majority thinks Trump acted wrongly, but impeaching him divides the public closely.
After days of damaging testimony in the Trump impeachment hearings, Democrats claimed they had built an airtight case against the president. Will it matter?
Ambassador Gordon Sondland said at a public impeachment hearing that efforts to force Ukraine to investigate President Trump’s political opponents were not a rogue operation.
Perspective: Marie Yovanovitch, William Taylor and other career diplomats, quiet and dignified, have become stars during the impeachment hearings.
Almost everyone in Trump’s orbit confronts the same dilemma, sooner or later: Stick with Trump and risk lasting damage, or break away and hope to survive his wrath. Gordon Sondland broke away in spectacular fashion.
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, has emerged as a pivotal link between the president and a shadow foreign policy led by Rudolph W. Giuliani.
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Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the EU, changed his story and blamed Rudolph W. Giuliani, acting on Trump’s wishes, for setting up a quid pro quo.
Gordon Sondland could be the Democrats’ star witness but he has already changed his testimony, giving him a potentially serious credibility problem.
Today’s House impeachment inquiry hearings kicked off at 9 a.m. ET. A second hearing is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET.
White House aides provide damaging new details about Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president.
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Sources say that, despite his denials, Volodymyr Zelensky was feeling pressure from the Trump administration to investigate Biden before the July phone call.
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In tweets, President Trump says he will “strongly consider” an offer by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to testify before the House impeachment panel.
The first witnesses to the House impeachment hearings offered a cogent, damaging portrait of President Trump’s attempts to strong-arm Ukraine to investigate Democrats. Some of next week’s witnesses may offer a rebuttal.
It is the latest salvo in the White House struggle to blunt Democrats’ contention that Trump abused the power of the presidency.
Marie Yovanovitch testifies about efforts to oust her, which Democrats say were meant to pave way for Trump to circumvent State Department structure.
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A diplomat’s account that the U.S. ambassador to the European Union picked up his cellphone at a restaurant in Kyiv and dialed President Trump to report on his meetings could cause trouble for both of them.
President Trump claimed not to watch the first public impeachment hearings on TV, hosting the president of Turkey while a House committee began presenting evidence of whether he should be impeached.
The public impeachment hearings begin, as the testimony of career diplomats imperils a presidency and the GOP moves to undermine the proceedings.
Here’s what to watch — and hope for — from the first public impeachment hearing.
The impeachment inquiry into President Trump has widened a massive divide, nowhere more evident than on cable TV.
The public impeachment inquiry hearings will start this week with testimony from three State Department officials
Taylor has emerged as a key witness in the impeachment inquiry after delivering explosive closed-door testimony to congressional investigators Oct. 22.
White House advisor Stephen Miller sent emails that “promoted white nationalist literature and racist propaganda” to conservative news site Breitbart, the Southern Poverty Law Center said Tuesday after releasing excerpts.
Democrats and Republicans at the public impeachment hearing will battle for the support of Americans who haven’t made up their minds about removing President Trump.
Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, who had tried to join another White House advisor’s lawsuit, changed his mind and says he won’t cooperate.
Rudolph Giuliani’s efforts to affect U.S. policy in Ukraine worried Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman and White House advisor Fiona Hill, according to transcripts.
Despite the late-night subpoena, White House acting Chief of Staff Mulvaney isn’t expected to appear for the interview Democrats have scheduled.
Rep. Devin Nunes hasn’t led witness questioning in the impeachment probe so far. He’s getting some help from Rep. Jim Jordan for the public hearings.
Democrats hope three State Department witnesses will help build the case that President Trump abused his power. But they haven’t decided yet how expansive their impeachment articles will be.
He testified that he was told to ‘lay low’ on Ukraine policy as the Trump administration and Rudy Giuliani dealt with Ukraine in unorthodox ways.
Jennifer Williams is one of many White House aides who listened in on the call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
As public hearings on impeachment near, many Americans haven’t made up their minds, a USC/Los Angeles Times poll finds. They’re generally younger, less partisan and paying less attention.
Senate impeachment trial could keep 2020 candidates in Washington during lead-up to Iowa
Previously disclosed text messages show William B. Taylor Jr. navigating the interests of Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, outside the normal State Department processes.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff tweeted the House Intelligence Committee will hold its first open hearings as part of the impeachment inquiry next week.
The State Department’s third-ranking official is expected to tell Congress that political considerations were behind the agency’s refusal to deliver a robust defense of the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, revised his deposition and brought it more in line with other impeachment witnesses’ remarks.
House committees that have conducted the impeachment inquiry into President Trump behind closed doors for the last six weeks released the first two transcripts of witness testimony Monday even as four other White House officials defied subpoenas and refused to appear.
John Eisenberg is one of four White House witnesses scheduled for depositions on Monday. None of the four is expected to appear.
President Trump is trying to follow Bill Clinton’s template for surviving impeachment by focusing on his agenda. So far, it has been a struggle.
It’s official now.
In historic vote, House approves public impeachment hearings despite unanimous Republican opposition
In its first vote related to the impeachment of President Trump, a divided House approved a resolution affirming its investigation.
Nancy Pelosi once said impeachment would only work with bipartisan support, but it’s not turning out that way so far.
Christopher Anderson, a State Department foreign service officer, is testifying today in the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Former deputy national security advisor Charles Kupperman asks court for guidance on whether he is legally required to testify in impeachment fight.
An ex-White House adviser who’s supposed to testify before House impeachment investigators on Monday has asked a federal court whether he should comply with a subpoena or follow President Donald Trump’s directive against cooperating.
Democrats had requested that the department provide the material, which was redacted from Mueller’s report, as part of their ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
House Democrats have issued subpoenas, scheduled depositions and made other requests to the Trump administration in the impeachment inquiry.
Enough House Democrats have publicly said that they support the Trump impeachment inquiry that the outcome is not significantly in doubt.
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